We’re pleased to present the most recent updates to the YaleSites platform in collaboration with The School of Environment and their vendor partner, Square360. This release focuses on enhancing your content management experience with new ways to present your resources.
YaleSites v2.9 - In Collaboration with School of Environment
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New Content Type: Resources
Enhance how you display your sites resources
This versatile content type allows you to associate content blocks with different types of media, including files and videos.
When to Use: Choose Resources when you need to highlight and organize files or videos that deserve their own space on your site. Unlike embedding files directly in pages, Resources create standalone content that can be discovered, tagged, and displayed dynamically throughout your site.
How to Use: Go to Content, select Add Content, and choose Resource
New Block: Resource View block
Improve your content management with the Resource View Block (This is a new block!) With this new view block you can use all three display modes: Card Grid, Card List, and Condense.
How to Use: Select Edit Layout And Content, then choose Add block, and click on Resource View
Latest Enhancements and Fixes
Content Management Updates: We’ve added BlueSky support for post-sharing and integrated a BlueSky field in the site footer, making it easier to share and feature content
User Experience Improvements: Event pages now support portrait style images
Accessibility Enhancements: Fixed accessibility contrast issue fixed on required asterisks on authoring pages
Bug Fixes:
- Removed unwanted shadow on image caption links
- Fixed the z-index issue on the Background Overlay Image field on Action Banner, Callouts, and Quick Link blocks
New Icons: Added 11 new icons for the Facts and Figures block
We encourage you to explore these new features and discover how they can enhance your YaleSite. As always, comprehensive documentation and training resources are available through our resource library.
Thank you to everyone who provided feedback and helped shape this release. This update represents our ongoing commitment to creating a platform that meets the diverse needs of the Yale community while maintaining our core principles of uniformity, inclusivity, user-centricity, standardization, and sustainability.
YaleSites Product Roadmap
What’s on the horizon for YaleSites?
The YaleSites Product Roadmap is a dynamic blueprint that outlines our vision for the future of the YaleSites platform. It provides a clear and strategic overview of the innovative features we’re planning to deliver in the upcoming year.
We’ve carefully charted our map to meet the evolving needs of our users, and this document serves as guidance, helping us stay on track and focused on what matters most.
